Entrepreneurship and the Pursuit of Happiness

Since I quit my office job to startup two companies, I have been working from home, while taking care of my 9 and 12 year old boys. For me, working by myself, is a very hard thing to do. It has nothing to do with working at home, or the boys, but everything to do with motivation. This has been a problem with finishing BG Alert, as well as some other projects I’ve been working on.  Since the school year is coming up and I want to test BG Alert, I’ve decided to do a New Year’s Resolution halfway through the year.  No more procrastination, and stay on task better.

3 hours ago, I decided that I would track all time in my day.  Sleep, eating, coding, IMing.  Everything.  I feel this will help me track the things that are eating away at my time in a negative way.  I started this at 10:30PM on Tuesday, August 5th and plan on doing this until I go to bed next Wednesday, August 12.  I then plan on doing this every 4 weeks.  My goal is to track my weaknesses in my time management, and hopefully eliminate them.  Tracking them on an interval of 4 weeks should show me productivity gains over time as well.

In my spare time (is there such thing?), I plan on making a super simple web application that makes tracking and logging this as easy as possible.  However, if there is already a site out there that is free and does this in an intuitive manner, please leave the URL in a comment, as I would love to use it.

Has anyone else done something like this?  What was learned from it?  Am I wasting my time?  In the end, I’m hoping this will open my eyes to what is really going on with my time, and help me become a more efficient person.

Update:

I am now using my new iPhone to track my time.  The Voice Memos app is awesome.  Hit record, say what I’m doing, hit stop.  Already records the time on it.  Still going strong!